Virtual tour of Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh

The author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is profiled in a great article in The Scotsman (free registration required):

He travelled widely, dying in Samoa – as far from and as culturally opposite to his native country - at age 44. It was his childhood in Edinburgh that shaped him. His writings are sprinkled with references to the places where he lived, studied, worked and played as boy and man. So where are Edinburgh's Stevenson "landmarks" that so inspired him - and how have the years changed them? Let's take a journey.